Upon starting to write about this, it occurs to me that “having my own place” can apply to having my own home just as much as it can apply to the idea of having my own place in life. Because, to be the frankest, I don’t feel like I have any of these. Yet. I am not making any money, I am back at Mom’s after having been in so many places already, never really sustained by my own income, which I have already had, but never stable enough to secure my independence.

Yeah, in times past I had the motivation to do things that at the time excited me because they were new and that happened to give me a decent chunk of money. If I had sustained that motivation somehow, I would be pretty well-off by now. But I wouldn’t be myself anyway.

As for space… well, I dream (wide awake) of having a massive place where I will live and at the same time lots of amazing projects are happening all the time. This will become real sooner rather than later, by the way.

When I was little my mother and stepfather decided to do an extreme makeover to my room and basically before I realized it, I found myself in a room with totally custom furniture that couldn’t move an inch. Paradoxically though, I’ve always been very fond of tinkering with stuff, and had I ever had the chance, I would certainly have changed my room many times every year, but the fact is that I never could.

This story of my solid room, I don’t really know how much it may or may not have shaped me, but the fact is that I always silently resented the way my growing up lacked the ability to move furniture around. Sure, of course I was lucky and priviledged to have furniture. In hindsight though, I can’t see how it may have helped me… I always longed to move stuff around, in a “nomadism inside my own world”… and I never could.

Now, we’re living in times of rising homelessness. And I have grown sincerely concerned with it, namely because I’ve found out the origins of the phenomenon, and most importantly, how to strike at the root of the injustice, solve it for good, and bring about a bright future. As Thomas Paine said,

Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.

This reform is not only possible but essential. And it takes a new attitude in terms of what we can dare to achieve as communities. As my friend Edward Miller said recently,

Centralization and command economies are a step backward, not a step forward. There are inherent informational complexity issues which are insolvable by centralized systems. Only decentralized systems can achieve resilience, promote freedom, and scale indefinitely.

If you want to know, this is what moves me… bringing about a sane, prosperous society. Feel free to learn more about Geolibertarianism. I will share much more about this, pretty soon, so stay tuned.

And of course, I totally must advance my money-making ideas too, because I need to sustain myself, I must stop being a burden on my parents, and if for nothing else, having money will be the most powerful accelerator of my planet-saving visions. More about money making in next posts… and also, certainly, about having my own place.

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